linux-next: manual merge of the kbuild-current tree with the origin tree

From: Mark Brown

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 07:09:07 EST


Hi all,

Today's linux-next merge of the kbuild-current tree got a conflict in:

arch/alpha/boot/Makefile

between commit:

c437950dceb88 ("alpha: add self-extracting compressed kernel boot stub")

from the origin tree and commit:

0d4d70da348b0 ("kbuild: Mark the gzip recipes as recursive")

from the kbuild-current tree.

I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
is submitted for merging. You may also want to consider cooperating
with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
complex conflicts.

diff --cc arch/alpha/boot/Makefile
index 7c2a41c1e2a06,b050753e90157..0000000000000
--- a/arch/alpha/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/alpha/boot/Makefile
@@@ -39,14 -38,9 +39,14 @@@ ifdef INITR
cat $(INITRD) >> $@
endif

-# Compressed kernel image
-$(obj)/vmlinux.gz: $(obj)/vmlinux FORCE
- +$(call if_changed,gzip)
+# Self-extracting compressed kernel image: a small ELF stub (see
+# compressed/) with the real vmlinux linked in compressed, which aboot
+# loads and enters like a plain vmlinux.
+$(obj)/compressed/vmlinux: vmlinux FORCE
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(obj)/compressed $@
+
+$(obj)/vmlinuz: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
- $(call if_changed,copy)
++ +$(call if_changed,copy)
@echo ' Kernel $@ is ready'

$(obj)/main.o: $(obj)/ksize.h

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